Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,617 6,396 6,753
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.61% 23.01% 20.63%
As % of the General category 33.40% 35.73% 35.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,395 4,287 4,509
10th Percentile £360 £342 £366
25th Percentile £450 £417 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £788 £813 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 98 137
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.48 £14.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £19.53 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% -12.03% +36.13%
75th Percentile £45.56 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.53 £80.75 £70.07
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -16.37% +36.13%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,803 17,901 18,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.72% 64.41% 58.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,244 11,321 11,735
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 1,001 1,014
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.31 £25.15 £38.68
Median % change year-on-year +24.48% -34.97% +40.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +19.28% -32.93% +36.36%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 10 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,210 £585 -0.43% 4,862
North of England 0 1,343 £506 +10.00% 1,040
South East -1 747 £500 -4.76% 1,297
North West -1 677 £500 +11.11% 582
Midlands -2 616 £500 +5.26% 579
Yorkshire 0 584 £516 +5.83% 341
West Midlands 0 460 £515 +0.15% 360
South West -5 357 £550 -4.35% 583
East of England +6 221 £550 -1.12% 362
East Midlands -3 153 £500 +19.05% 219
North East -6 75 £500 +14.29% 131
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 301 (3.49%) Confluence
2 238 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 86 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 57 (0.66%) Apache
6 42 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.36%) CMS
8 25 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 23 (0.27%) SAS
10 16 (0.19%) Camunda
10 16 (0.19%) IIS
11 15 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.093%) CICS
13 7 (0.081%) WebLogic
14 6 (0.070%) Appian
14 6 (0.070%) Ethereum
15 5 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.058%) WordPress
16 4 (0.046%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 4 (0.046%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 479 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 176 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 143 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.093%) Trello
9 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.081%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.046%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.046%) Sketch
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 326 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 115 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
3 103 (1.20%) NetSuite
4 97 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 83 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
6 72 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
7 63 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
8 56 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
9 48 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 47 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
11 37 (0.43%) SAP FI
12 35 (0.41%) Workday HCM
13 34 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
14 32 (0.37%) Aladdin
15 31 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
16 26 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
17 25 (0.29%) SAP CO
18 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
19 21 (0.24%) SAP BRIM
19 21 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,401 (16.26%) Azure
2 956 (11.09%) AWS
3 605 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 465 (5.40%) GCP
5 314 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 291 (3.38%) GitHub
7 289 (3.35%) SaaS
8 281 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
9 228 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
10 209 (2.43%) Entra ID
11 192 (2.23%) Snowflake
12 140 (1.62%) Serverless
13 124 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
14 117 (1.36%) dbt
15 111 (1.29%) Power Automate
16 110 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 104 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
18 103 (1.20%) Amazon S3
19 100 (1.16%) OCI
20 92 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (1.83%) Firewall
2 139 (1.61%) Network Security
3 99 (1.15%) VPN
4 78 (0.91%) DNS
5 54 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 49 (0.57%) WAN
7 48 (0.56%) DHCP
8 42 (0.49%) BGP
9 36 (0.42%) SSL
10 34 (0.39%) VLAN
11 33 (0.38%) Multicast
12 28 (0.32%) Wireless
13 27 (0.31%) LAN
13 27 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 24 (0.28%) HTTP
15 22 (0.26%) OSPF
15 22 (0.26%) SAN
16 21 (0.24%) Internet
17 15 (0.17%) DMZ
18 14 (0.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 501 (5.81%) Power BI
2 263 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 239 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 173 (2.01%) Metadata
5 147 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 119 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 117 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 103 (1.20%) Tableau
9 73 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 67 (0.78%) Oracle Database
11 66 (0.77%) BigQuery
12 58 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 58 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
13 55 (0.64%) Power Query
14 54 (0.63%) Delta Lake
15 44 (0.51%) Big Data
16 43 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 33 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 594 (6.89%) JIRA
2 253 (2.94%) Git
3 155 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 102 (1.18%) GitLab
5 53 (0.62%) Selenium
6 48 (0.56%) JUnit
7 34 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 31 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.34%) REST Assured
9 29 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 27 (0.31%) Maven
12 26 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 26 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.28%) ERwin
14 23 (0.27%) Gradle
15 21 (0.24%) Cypress.io
16 19 (0.22%) Postman
17 18 (0.21%) Zephyr
18 17 (0.20%) Mockito
General
1 2,684 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 1,802 (20.91%) Banking
3 1,263 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 438 (5.08%) Legal
5 436 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 369 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
7 347 (4.03%) Retail
8 337 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 304 (3.53%) Front Office
10 299 (3.47%) Financial Institution
11 289 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
12 184 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 182 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
14 167 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 155 (1.80%) Marketing
16 154 (1.79%) General Ledger
17 144 (1.67%) Billing
18 142 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
19 139 (1.61%) Local Government
20 135 (1.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,256 (14.58%) Analyst
2 956 (11.09%) Senior
3 890 (10.33%) Lead
4 856 (9.93%) Developer
5 759 (8.81%) Architect
6 627 (7.28%) Business Analyst
7 600 (6.96%) Project Manager
8 571 (6.63%) Consultant
9 284 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
10 275 (3.19%) Data Engineer
11 230 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
12 206 (2.39%) Senior Manager
13 177 (2.05%) Data Analyst
14 175 (2.03%) Java Developer
15 174 (2.02%) Senior Developer
16 171 (1.98%) Programme Manager
17 169 (1.96%) IT Manager
18 167 (1.94%) Finance Manager
19 166 (1.93%) Accountant
20 140 (1.62%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (3.75%) Terraform
2 316 (3.67%) REST
3 256 (2.97%) .NET
4 222 (2.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 221 (2.56%) React
6 218 (2.53%) Kafka
7 168 (1.95%) Spring
8 165 (1.91%) Spring Boot
9 157 (1.82%) Middleware
10 136 (1.58%) PySpark
11 117 (1.36%) RESTful
12 84 (0.97%) XML
13 83 (0.96%) OAuth
14 78 (0.91%) JSON
15 77 (0.89%) Redux
16 71 (0.82%) AngularJS
17 70 (0.81%) Node.js
18 68 (0.79%) SOAP
19 65 (0.75%) HTML
20 62 (0.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 473 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 446 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 385 (4.47%) Cloud Native
4 238 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 219 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 211 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 174 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 170 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 164 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 161 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 157 (1.82%) Derivative
12 153 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 151 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 122 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
15 116 (1.35%) Fixed Income
15 116 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
16 104 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 98 (1.14%) Equities
18 96 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
19 90 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 343 (3.98%) Windows
2 271 (3.14%) Linux
3 138 (1.60%) Unix
4 77 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 39 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 35 (0.41%) Android
9 31 (0.36%) Solaris
10 28 (0.32%) zOS
11 27 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.12%) AIX
14 8 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.093%) VMS
15 6 (0.070%) HPUX
15 6 (0.070%) SUSE
16 4 (0.046%) CentOS
16 4 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,260 (26.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,813 (21.04%) Agile
3 1,174 (13.62%) Migration
4 1,161 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
5 1,104 (12.81%) AI
6 1,073 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,016 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 971 (11.27%) CI/CD
9 905 (10.50%) Analytics
10 895 (10.39%) DevOps
11 850 (9.86%) Decision-Making
12 840 (9.75%) ERP
13 778 (9.03%) Roadmaps
14 744 (8.63%) Validation
15 705 (8.18%) Project Management
16 676 (7.84%) Data Modelling
17 661 (7.67%) Change Management
18 654 (7.59%) User Acceptance Testing
19 603 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
20 593 (6.88%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,187 (13.78%) SQL
2 1,059 (12.29%) Python
3 557 (6.46%) Java
4 339 (3.93%) C#
5 259 (3.01%) PowerShell
6 226 (2.62%) JavaScript
7 201 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 126 (1.46%) Bash
9 100 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 83 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 66 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 64 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 62 (0.72%) C++
14 55 (0.64%) Bicep
15 45 (0.52%) Korn
16 38 (0.44%) Go
16 38 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 37 (0.43%) VBA
18 35 (0.41%) Scala
19 33 (0.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 685 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 658 (7.64%) Degree
3 488 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 243 (2.82%) PMP
5 212 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 196 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 183 (2.12%) ACCA
8 160 (1.86%) CIMA
9 142 (1.65%) CISSP
10 127 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 119 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 103 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 80 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 80 (0.93%) CISM
14 64 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 60 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 48 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 45 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 44 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 35 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 616 (7.15%) Data Quality
2 378 (4.39%) QA
3 333 (3.86%) PMO
4 209 (2.43%) GDPR
5 136 (1.58%) NIST
6 112 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 98 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 98 (1.14%) GRC
8 91 (1.06%) IFRS
9 82 (0.95%) SLA
10 67 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 52 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 48 (0.56%) GAAP
13 37 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 36 (0.42%) Solvency II
15 29 (0.34%) SEPA
16 26 (0.30%) COBIT
17 24 (0.28%) MiFID
18 20 (0.23%) SOC 2
19 19 (0.22%) EMIR
System Software
1 238 (2.76%) Docker
2 222 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 75 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 26 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.21%) RACF
7 17 (0.20%) vSphere
8 14 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 8 (0.093%) IAG
12 6 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.046%) ACF2
14 4 (0.046%) KVM
14 4 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.035%) GPFS
15 3 (0.035%) GridGain
16 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 397 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 153 (1.78%) Ansible
3 87 (1.01%) Grafana
4 73 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 64 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.72%) SCCM
7 52 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.30%) Control-M
8 26 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.16%) Argo
10 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
11 11 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.13%) Puppet
12 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 10 (0.12%) Packer
12 10 (0.12%) vRealize
13 9 (0.10%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.10%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.093%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,269 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 749 (8.69%) Oracle
3 667 (7.74%) SAP
4 330 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 321 (3.73%) Databricks
6 220 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 190 (2.20%) Google
8 149 (1.73%) IBM
9 123 (1.43%) VMware
10 114 (1.32%) Workday
11 108 (1.25%) Cisco
12 106 (1.23%) Splunk
13 80 (0.93%) CyberArk
14 74 (0.86%) OpenAI
15 65 (0.75%) Ariba
16 56 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 50 (0.58%) Citrix
18 47 (0.55%) Murex
19 46 (0.53%) Sage
20 45 (0.52%) Red Hat